Taste Interactions between Sweetness of Sucrose and Sourness of Citric and Tartaric Acid among Chinese and Danish Consumers

Autor: Yuanxia Sun, Ulla Kidmose, Derek V. Byrne, Jonas Yde Junge, Yan Zeng, Line Ahm Mielby, Anne Sjoerup Bertelsen
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Taste
Health (social science)
Sucrose
model matrix
030309 nutrition & dietetics
Plant Science
lcsh:Chemical technology
Health Professions (miscellaneous)
Microbiology
Hierarchical clustering
Article
taste mixtures
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
Taste-taste interactions
0404 agricultural biotechnology
basic tastes
stomatognathic system
Taste mixtures
lcsh:TP1-1185
Food science
individual differences
Affect perception
cross-culture
0303 health sciences
Taste primaries
Chemistry
taste-taste interactions
Basic tastes
Significant difference
Agglomerative hierarchical cluster
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
Sweetness
040401 food science
Cross-culture
Model matrix
taste primaries
Individual differences
Tartaric acid
Citric acid
hierarchical clustering
Food Science
Zdroj: Foods
Foods, Vol 9, Iss 1425, p 1425 (2020)
Junge, J Y, Bertelsen, A S, Mielby, L A, Zeng, Y, Sun, Y X, Byrne, D V & Kidmose, U 2020, ' Taste interactions between sweetness of sucrose and sourness of citric and tartaric acid among Chinese and Danish consumers ', Foods, vol. 9, no. 10, 1425 . https://doi.org/10.3390/foods9101425
Volume 9
Issue 10
ISSN: 2304-8158
DOI: 10.3390/foods9101425
Popis: Tastes interact in almost every consumed food or beverage, yet many aspects of interactions, such as sweet-sour interactions, are not well understood. This study investigated the interaction between sweetness from sucrose and sourness from citric and tartaric acid, respectively. A cross-cultural consumer study was conducted in China (n = 120) and Denmark (n = 139), respectively. Participants evaluated six aqueous samples with no addition (control), sucrose, citric acid, tartaric acid, or a mixture of sucrose and citric acid or sucrose and tartaric acid. No significant difference was found between citric acid and tartaric acid in the suppression of sweetness intensity ratings of sucrose. Further, sucrose suppressed sourness intensity ratings of citric acid and tartaric acid similarly. Culture did not impact the suppression of sweetness intensity ratings of citric or tartaric acid, whereas it did influence sourness intensity ratings. While the Danish consumers showed similar suppression of sourness by both acids, the Chinese consumers were more susceptible towards the sourness suppression caused by sucrose in the tartaric acid-sucrose mixture compared to the citric acid-sucrose mixture. Agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis revealed clusters of consumers with significant differences in sweetness intensity ratings and sourness intensity ratings. These results indicate that individual differences in taste perception might affect perception of sweet-sour taste interactions, at least in aqueous solutions.
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